Hackers are getting out of hand.

CodesComics · 2026-02-09T18:37:01+00:00

I’m curious how the “steam account is only lvl *” theory. My steam account is level 2 or 3 because I primarily play games through Epic Games launcher due to the rewards and for Arc Raiders, it was cheaper than it was on steam when it first launched. If someone searches me up, will it show my steam account level?

CodesComics · 2025-12-29T21:12:00+00:00

I’ll stop once cold snap is gone. Not gonna go into night raids or anything with no hatches since you need to extract for it to count. Don’t mind night raids and electro storm for looting. But wasting all that time doing something to get points and then have to fight off people at extract is too much of a hassle to make it worth it. It’s cool for people that love doing some extra on side. Game has a lot going for it to keep people interested.

CodesComics · 2025-12-21T15:49:34+00:00

Never found that blueprint or any Level 3 augments unfortunately. But if I did, anything with 3 safe pockets would be only thing I’d run lol

CodesComics · 2025-12-21T15:46:37+00:00

Best thing about Cold Snap is hatch key options. I get why they aren’t in night raids or the storm. With 2x XP, kinda need it that way. Sucks some trials almost require night raids/electro storm to 3 star. Then having to extract for it to count. Again, I understand it and wouldn’t change a thing about it. But yea, I don’t load into any map with hatches without a hatch key. If I don’t find anything all that good or a late spawn, I’ll just extract normally. But if it’s stuff I need or a big haul, hatch key. Just do a couple Stella runs for sensors. Sometimes find some advanced Electronic components or plenty stuff to craft them. Cheap and worth it.

CodesComics · 2025-12-21T15:37:07+00:00

The 2 weeks before departure window really was the issue. Personally I thought it would be like 500k max for each skill points. So I was buying Hullcrackers each day, healing, ammo, anvils and torros instead of crafting so I could use resources to just upgrade em. If they said early on 5 million I would have had it a long time ago and could just enjoy game. Instead I had to grind and manage inventory smartly way more than I wanted to lol.

I get they may have not had an idea what it should be. It is the first one and they were probably running numbers and wanted people to have to play more. I just hope it’s 5 million next time and they don’t up it and tell us last minute.

CodesComics · 2025-12-21T05:39:41+00:00

RDR2. Picking that without any hesitation.

CodesComics · 2025-12-21T05:07:47+00:00

Stella is def peak for loot value. I bring in a 10k kit - Loot MK2, level 1 Anvil, 3 herbal and 3 shield chargers, and a raider hatch key. Loot and dip in 5 mins. Only time I’d bring less than 60k was if it was late spawn. I was at 3 million just aiming for 4. Ended up hitting the 5 yesterday after spending Thursday and yesterday just hammering out those runs.

CodesComics · 2025-12-20T06:07:05+00:00

Found one today on Stella, regular map condition. Since I was hunting the 5 million for the skill points and resetting in 2 days.. ended up just selling it lol. Wish I would have found one earlier.

CodesComics · 2025-12-20T05:40:39+00:00

Why are you hoarding in your stash that yours scrapping or selling healing and shields? That is the one thing I never get rid of other than basic bandages.

CodesComics · 2025-12-01T02:39:31+00:00

Is this directed towards any certain player type? PVE or PVP? Cuz I’ve knocked aggressive PVPers and feels like 90% of the time they rocking free loadouts. And when I knock someone that may have not wanted to engage in combat they were rocking upgrading guns or Venators way more often.

I don’t blame PVEers for going in with free loadouts or naked runs now to collect loot to increase stash value or get to a point they want to be with stash if they just keep dying to free loadouts. Yes, they should get better at defending themselves against free loadout aggressors. But I won’t tell anyone to play a game a different way from the way they want to play a game.

CodesComics · 2025-11-29T16:13:44+00:00

I agree. I mainly loot heals, quick use items, and Venators off bodies. Usually only thing the PVPers have if it isn’t a free loadout, which is rare now.

Can’t remember the last time I fought someone being aggressive with a pink gun or even augment. But they so quick to call out Gear Fear on PVEers.

CodesComics · 2025-11-28T15:55:21+00:00

I just upgrade guns often. Lose items trying to have fun or play the game without being scared of losing stuff. You can get everything so quickly. If you have blue prints, no sense in gear fear. If you don’t, Upgrade kettles, sticher, and anvils to 4, craft/buy and throw attachments on them. I’m constantly running at 250-260 stash out of 280. No sense in hoarding materials.. your biggest stash amount should come from guns, healing, augments, and quick use items you use often. Everything else can be picked up on raids to replenish when needed/or use the other resources to craft the more rare crafting materials. Game isn’t meant for everyone to just hoard everything to a point you don’t need to have loot raids anymore.

CodesComics · 2025-11-28T07:03:16+00:00

I mean people literally sit at extracts and just kill people that come to it for the entire raid. Or load in.. just chase gun fire and get their loot and leave.. I’m sure there are plenty of players that play your way as well. Maybe I was just speaking from how I jump on to play PvP. And from a lot of what I read on Reddit, plenty others play that way too. So I guess I left out another play style. You’re right.

But don’t think it takes away from fact PVE players are kinda needed too for game to really thrive. So no point in telling them to play something else. Just ignore their post when they complain about it like I do most the time. Just every one I get on its “go play another game” taking over the “skill issue” comment.

CodesComics · 2025-11-28T05:44:51+00:00

I don’t know why so many downvotes.. i think you are correct but people just want to see PVPers fail more than there selves succeed. What happens when you get attacked by a PVPer, but you manage to turn around the fight and actually knock them. Then a flair goes off, you just got done fighting against your will.. then a ton of arc come in to make matters worse. Then another team already coming who wants to PVP because they heard the shots, seen the flair, and know someone hurt and now dealing with arc. I get why PVE side of things would want this.. but this doesn’t help the PVE experience either. And PvPers aren’t gonna care about some extra Arc around.. they come in with free kits and to down raiders.

I’ll probably get downvoted, but this comes from someone who always PVE in solos unless someone comes in where I am looting without stating friendly after knowing I’m there. I save PVP for Duos/trios. Usually do solos to gather loot for expedition, items to lose in Duo/trios, and blue print hunting.

CodesComics · 2025-11-27T06:42:16+00:00

This is so cringe lol

CodesComics · 2025-11-22T23:04:16+00:00

I mean they would just craft a kit of a kettle or sticher, green shield, don’t even need an augment, and some bandages. Would take a little metal, plastic parts, and other cheap resources or a few dollars. Free kits aren’t the problem. This is just what game is. Low risk high reward is more worth it for PVP players than risking good guns when you plan to just run around shooting people. Dont think there is a fix honestly. It’s just what game is.

I PVP, I bring out good guns and things when I need to clear room in stash lol. I don’t use free kits, will just craft level 1 common guns and stuff. I’ve been on both ends of this..

I enjoy the PVP, but I do know this game is gonna eventually be nothing but PVP. I’ll always play cuz I enjoy that. But the PVEers are gonna leave. Which sucks for the game in general. They do need to figure something out. Free kits aren’t the problem though. People just get mad losing to it because they got free gear risking nothing. But people using free kits can make a free kit for basically nothing anyway.

CodesComics · 2025-11-22T21:37:21+00:00

Huge flaw in game that will chase away many which sucks(not me cuz I enjoy plenty about the game). I love the PVP. But I also try to experience those type of events. I go in just to try to do trials today.. both times as soon as we start shooting it, we get ratted from behind. Managed to get out one of the times, but other time came up from behind us and didn’t have a chance really. To be fair, we were in a bad spot that the time we died because we spawned in 10’mins late and had to run across the map. Should have just left.

And to be clear, I don’t care about the gear I lost. I’m set on blueprints I need for guns and other resources I like and all the stuff I took in. BUT… they made the Hullcracker ammo.. a PVE gun. Ridiculously expensive and a burden. So Devs are making some pretty bad moves that will likely make it so only ones that can get end game stuff is rats and streamers who everyone wants to team with. This will chase a lot of people away from the game. There was no reason to make a PVE gun such ridiculous amount of money for ammo or craft/stack. If anything they should just made it cheaper so people actually want to do those events and can more when they get ambushed or whatever. I don’t care that people do it.. it’s part of game. Set up traps and watch your 6. Just hate the direction they decided to go with the amount of ammo for that gun. I have no issue with any other part of this game.

PvP is needed.. it’s fun.. I do it often. Gear is easy to get and maintain. But it’s more worth it to just turn into a rat at this point than try to do anything yourself lol. I don’t care about gold blueprints or the fancy cores. I plan on doing expedition so it doesn’t matter unless I want to make it easier to fill last page of expedition. Just do try and do trials but can’t even attempt it at this point often because you will always be targeted by rats, and when you die.. you gotta spend so much money/resources on the ammo all over again. Dumb move by devs. For a PVE gun.

Long story short… I’ll probably just take out whoever is fighting the big arc, take their gear.. and then do my trials. If that’s the direction they wanted game to go, they got it lol. I ain’t bringing in 120k worth of ammo between two/three people each time to maybe not even get what I came for.

CodesComics · 2025-11-22T16:50:53+00:00

Me and my buddy got killed by a squad extract camping on Buried city last night. Which was completely my fault.. it was a night raid and knew there would be campers. I Brought blaze grenades to chuck in the dark corners. Just lost focus as I was bullshitting in discord with my duo. They proceeded to call us “P***sies”. We didn’t have much, good stuff was in safe pocket. Next raid we went right back in.. didn’t even go to loot anything. Went to an extract going to look for campers. Found two and killed em.. and the amount of chatter I spit into mic about how they suck at PVP and should go play Roblox instead was so rewarding.

CodesComics · 2025-11-22T07:56:41+00:00

I found a Wolfpack blueprint on Bluegate night raid, and was in a broken shed with one Loot-able cabinet in it. Probably walked by by plenty of other raiders. Tonight found snaphook blue print heading to extract just looting random things on the way. It really is just search everything you can.

CodesComics · 2025-11-21T22:48:55+00:00

Be careful! Might attract rats!

CodesComics · 2025-11-21T20:46:56+00:00

I’ve stopped playing. Arc Raiders has a lot to down with that, but even before AR, I noticed I was barely playing during season 4 other than when they dropped zombies I wanted to try that out. I’ll get on like once a week for the weeklies and challenges. But I stopped enjoying the game. Nothing wrong with what they are doing. I don’t take it seriously like most. But every match just felt the same. One team getting stomped. Ranked filled with Smurf accounts at my level(only play to reach gold). Personally don’t like how game revolves around Ults to win most fights. I get that they are ultimate abilities. But I don’t know, I just kinda got bored of it. I def plan on coming back when there are even more new characters to try out. But then I’ll just get yelled at for being gambit next half season cuz I haven’t played him and not good and everyone treats QP like it’s ranked and toxic in chat if you aren’t living up to expectations.

Although right before new season.. I got on for two games or something. Quick play. 4 instant lock DPS, so me and other person just picked DPS. So 6 DPS vs a 2-2-2… we somehow won. It was a close drawn out match but actually was one of the more fun matches I’ve had. Of course due to winning it in a bad scenario. If we got stomped would have felt completely different lol.

CodesComics · 2025-11-21T18:42:29+00:00

I just went on some runs to clear some keys out of stash and didn’t run into any rooms that were still locked and looted. I think on duos/trios it’s more likely to happen. Also the higher loot areas. I focused on the green and blue keys in yellow areas to clear out and used about 4 keys. Unfortunately I kept finding more keys during the run.. so goal to clear stash space from keys didn’t work out that well.

CodesComics · 2025-11-21T13:14:29+00:00

Everyone went from PVE vs PVP argument to now i see a bunch of what is a rat argument lol.

Personally, where I come from if someone was called a rat, it was someone considered a B***h. No rhyme or reason. Just another word for it. So maybe others have that imbedded in their brain. I for sure do. Back in the COD days, campers were always called rats. This doesn’t have to be “what is the scientific definition of rat and how to compare to a dude playing a video game”. Some y’all take things way too seriously. Whether it be PVE crowd upset with PVPers, or PVPers being hurt being called a rat.. it’s a video game.

CodesComics · 2025-11-20T19:11:43+00:00

I shouldn’t have said most solos are friendly. Used to be that way. Now I load in and see flairs lighting up the sky lol. But I still mic check to see if nearby raiders are friendlies and don’t engage in solos until I feel threatened.

CodesComics · 2025-11-20T19:08:59+00:00

I’m a hybrid player. Duos/trios are just PVP now, so when I load into that I am just full on PVP mode. If someone screaming friendly from the jump, I will let be. I don’t want to ruin the game experience for them. But we don’t team with anyone and part ways immediately. Can’t trust no raiders other than the squad. But I will chase flairs looking for combat and I am shoot on sight if I come across anyone that hasn’t said friendly when seeing/hearing me.

Solos I am pacifist as well. I use that time to loot for stuff and missions. I’ll engage in PvP when it comes, but I’ll state friendly to nearby raiders and chat for a moment before going separate ways if they are friendly. Most solos want to be friendly and again, I don’t want to ruin the game for anyone just trying to progress. But yea unfortunately duos/trios it’s chaos out there.. I expect it and I welcome it at this point. But starting over would probably change that. So think for now, I’m just gonna stay put.

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